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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshiharu Saitoh, South Burlington, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 3/776 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 3/776 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for blowing fuses in an integrated circuit. The apparatus and method use a plurality of fuse blowing circuits coupled serially. Each successive fuse blowing circuit is activated by an activate signal generated by a previous fuse blowing circuit. The apparatus and method provide for the fuse blowing operation to be both self-timing and self-testing.